Platformer

By Casey Newton

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Weekly audio updates at the intersection of tech and democracy. From Casey Newton.

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Episode Date
Replit's CEO: "You Don't Need to Code Anymore"
Aug 07, 2026
How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Aug 06, 2026
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Jul 31, 2026
A big week for AI denialism
Jul 28, 2026
The case for making your own apps
Jul 22, 2026
He tried 200 to-do apps so you don't have to
Jul 15, 2026
Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
Jul 08, 2026
Why Amazon is hiring 11,000 junior employees
Jun 24, 2026
Why this founder isn't hiring junior employees anymore
Jun 17, 2026
How to help people who lose their jobs to AI
Jun 10, 2026
A labor economist explains why AI won't take your job
Jun 03, 2026
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on the end of the software engineer
May 27, 2026
Why Doomers Are Wrong about AI and Jobs with Google's James Manyika
May 19, 2026
The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job with Box CEO Aaron Levie
May 13, 2026
The Trump administration's AI doomer moment
May 06, 2026
How we're shaking up Platformer for the AI era
Apr 28, 2026
The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
Apr 17, 2026
Sam Altman’s second thoughts
Apr 14, 2026
Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
Apr 07, 2026
Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
Apr 01, 2026
Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem
Mar 25, 2026
Why Meta is retreating from encryption
Mar 17, 2026
Inside the backlash to the AI war machine
Mar 06, 2026
What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?
Mar 03, 2026
The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived
Feb 27, 2026
The infinite scroll goes on trial
Feb 20, 2026
Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end
Feb 10, 2026
The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot
Feb 06, 2026
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
Feb 03, 2026
What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t
Jan 28, 2026
The AI productivity paradox
Jan 23, 2026
What I learned while cloning my own voice
Jan 14, 2026
Grok gets blocked
Jan 13, 2026